sword, weapon, or dagger, henceforward, upon pain of death.

Glo. Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law: But we shall meet, and break our minds at large. Win. Gloster, we'll meet; to thy cost, be thou

sure:

Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.
Mayor. I'll call for clubs, if you will not away :-
This cardinal is more haughty than the devil.
Glo. Mayor, farewel: thou dost but what thou

may'st.

Win. Abominable Gloster! guard thy head; For I intend to have it, ere long.

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[Exeunt. Mayor. See the coast clear'd, and then we will de

part.

Good God! that nobles should such stomachs bear! I myself fight not once in forty year.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV.

Orleans in France. Enter the Master-Gunner of Orleans, and his Boy.

M. Gun. Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is be

sieg'd;

And how the English have the suburbs won.

Boy. Father, I know: and oft have shot at them, Howe'er, unfortunate, I miss'd my aim.

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M. Gun.

M. Gun. But now thou shalt not.

me:

Be thou rul'd by

Chief master-gunner am I of this town;
Something I must do, to procure me grace.
The prince's spials have informed me,
How the English, in the suburbs close entrench'd,
Went, through a secret grate of iron bars
In yonder tower, to over-peer the city:

And thence discover, how, with most advantage,
They may vex us, with shot, or with assault.
To intercept this inconvenience,

A piece of ordinance 'gainst it I have plac'd;
And fully even these three days have I watch'd,
If I could see them: Now, boy, do thou watch;
For I can stay no longer.

If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;
And thou shalt find me at the governor's.

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[Exit.

Boy. Father, I warrant you; take you no care; I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.

Enter the Lords SALISBURY and TALBOT, with Sir W. GLANSDALE and Sir THOMAS GARGRAVE, on the Turrets.

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Sal. Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd! 440 How wert thou handled, being prisoner?

Or by what means got'st thou to be releas'd?
Discourse, I pry'thee, on this turret's top,

Tal. The duke of Bedford had a prisoner,
Called the brave lord Ponton de Santrailles;
For him was I exchang'd and ransomed.

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But

But with a baser man of arms by far,

Once, in contempt, they would have barter'd me:
Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death
Rather than I would be so pill'd esteem'd.

In fine, redeem'd I was as I desir'd.

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But, oh! the treacherous Fastolffe wounds my heart! Whom with my bare fists I would execute,

If I now had him brought into my power.

Sal. Yet tell'st thou not, how thou wert entertain❜d. Tal. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious

taunts.

In open market-place produc'd they me,

To be a public spectacle to all;

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Here, said they, is the terror of the French,
The scare-crow that affrights our children so.
Then broke I from the officers that led me ;
And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground,
To hurl at the beholders of my shame.

My grisly countenance made others fly;

None durst come near, for fear of sudden death.
In iron walls they deem'd me not secure;

So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,
That they suppos'd, I could rend bars of steel,
And spurn in pieces posts of adamant :
Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,
That walk'd about me every minute while;
And if I did but stir out of my bed,

Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.

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Enter

Enter the Boy with a Linstock.

Sal. I grieve to hear what torments you endur'd; But we will be reveng'd sufficiently.

Now it is supper-time in Orleans:

Here through this grate, I can count every one,
And view the Frenchmen how they fortify;

Let us look in, the sight will much delight thee.-
Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale,
Let me have your express opinions.

Where is best place to make our battery next.

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Gar. I think, at the north gate: for there stand

lords.

Glan. And I here, at the bulwark of the bridge. Tal. For aught I see, this city must be famish'd, Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.

[Shot from the Town. SALISBURY and Sir THO.
GARGRAVE fall down.

Sal. O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched finners!
Gar. O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!
Tal. What chance is this, that suddenly hath cross'd

us?

Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak; 490 How far'st thou, mirror of all martial men?

One of thy eyes, and thy cheek's side struck off!-
Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand,

That hath contriv'd this woeful tragedy!
In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;
Henry the fifth he first train'd to the wars:
Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,

His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.-
Yet liv'st thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth
fail,

One eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace :
The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.-
Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,
If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!--
Bear hence his body, I will help to bury it.-
Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him.
Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort;
Thou shalt not die, whiles-

He beckons with his hand, and smiles on me;
As who should say, When I am dead and gone,
Remember to avenge me on the French.-
Plantagenet, I will; and Nero-like,
Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:
Wretched shall France be only in my name.

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[Here an Alarum, and it thunders and lightens, What stir is this? What tumult's in the heavens? Whence cometh this alarum, and this noise ?

Enter a Messenger.

Mess. My lord, my lord, the French have gather'd

head:

The dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd

A holy prophetess, new risen up

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Is come with a great power to raise the siege. [Here SALISBURY lifteth himself up, and groans.

Tal.